Hannah Mwangi

“Our desire to preserve is a form of denial about our own mortality. The fact that art can endure longer than people has lead some to seek a form of proxy-immortality through it,” – Julian Baggini, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten Has our relationship to photography gone too far? The photographer, as is the case with every artist, constructs a world within a world. A duplicate, still-born, immortalization of life.

“I’m not going to tell you to sit back and relax. I’m going to tell you to sit up, to open your ears, open your minds, and open your hearts as we present I Dream A World, 250 years of American song,” Lark Witten, visiting director of choirs, said to audience members inside the Seattle First Baptist Church May 14 at 7 p.m. in her speech introducing I Dream a World, Seattle University’s annual spring choral concert. Before a single note was sung, the choir breathed in as one.